This story is part of What Happens Next, our complete guide to understanding the future. Read more predictions about the Future of College.The curriculum for a well-educated Victorian was much simpler than a student of today: There would have been Latin and mathematics to learn, of course, along with geography and history. But when it comes to…

New technology allows researchers to look beneath the layers of the Dutch master’s works, revealing some macabre details.Image“The Battle Between Carnival and Lent,” painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1559. Using infrared and X-ray technology, researchers uncovered changes that have been made to the work over the centuries.CreditCreditKunsthistorisches MuseumAMSTERDAM — What would happen if…

From Car and DriverThe first Range Rover Evoque wasn’t a huge hit on this side of the Atlantic, but it was a significant car for its parent company. Land Rover had a miserable time in the most recent recession, and it was this baby Range Rover, launched in 2011, that helped to transform the brand’s…

From smart displays to 4K TVs for less than $300. This article is published through a partnership with New York Media’s Strategist. The partnership is designed to surface the most useful, expert recommendations for things to buy across the vast e-commerce landscape. We update links when possible, but note that deals can expire and all…

Stuart Palley, a professional wildfire photographer here standing in the Angeles National Forest, believes mirrorless cameras will replace conventional SLRs. Stuart Palley Digital photography has changed a lot over the past two decades, with clunky DSLRs giving way to sleek smartphones. Over the next 10 years, expect a similar evolution as the science behind the…

5G phones and networks are almost here, promising amazing feats like downloading entire TV seasons in minutes, and enabling cities full of driverless cars that talk to each other in real time. But the reality is that early 5G phones and networks won’t transform the way we use our phones and other devices overnight. Your carrier’s…

If there was a word that dominated startup and tech news coverage this year, it was SoftBank. The Japanese telecom conglomerate’s Vision Fund pushed out a prodigious amount of capital this year — quite literally billions of dollars — into companies as diverse as a molecular manufacturer (Zymergen) and a robotic pizza delivery business (Zume Pizza).…

The Consumer Electronics Show, like Burning Man, is a massive event in the middle of the desert. Also like Burning Man it is populated by some of the greatest minds in technology. But, unlike Burning Man, these people are all dressed and only a few of them are on hard psychotropic drugs. Also CES is…

When it comes to how humans communicate with each other or with machines, voice is a major interface, with growth in the latter fuelled by the rise of artificial intelligence, faster computing technology and an explosion of new devices — some of which only, or primarily, work with voice commands. But the supreme reign of voice has…

Aaron Mooy’s first goals of the season lifted Huddersfield off the bottom of the Premier League and up to 14th in the tableNuno Espirito Santo says Wolves’ defeat by Huddersfield was one of their “worst performances” since he joined the club as head coach in May 2017.While Aaron Mooy’s double lifted David Wagner’s side off…

AI is here to stay, and there’s a simple reason why: proven ROI. Businesses in multiple industries are incorporating AI because the upside is tangible. According to an Accenture report, implementing AI solutions boosted profitability by an average of 38 percent across 16 industries. For the U.S. economy as a whole, this boost could lead to an additional…

Our in-house Know-It-Alls answer questions about your interactions with technology.Q: How Do Self-Driving Cars See?A: It’s a sunny day, and you’re biking along one of Mountain View’s tree-lined esplanades. You head into a left turn, and before you change lanes, you crane your head around for a quick look back. That’s when you see it.…

binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror 105293752 story UK Now Has Systems To Combat Drones (bbc.com) 128 Posted by msmash on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @11:02AM from the once-bitten-twice-shy dept. Detection systems are now able to be deployed throughout the UK to combat the threat of drones, ministers say. It follows three days of disruption…

The ever-useful Gartner Hype Cycle identified an inflection point in the life of any new technology: the “Peak of Inflated Expectations,” attained just before the sharp dropoff into the “Trough of Disillusionment”; I’ve lived through the hype-cycles of several kinds of technology and one iron-clad correlate of the “Peak of Inflated Expectations” is the “Peak…

Vaping is a popular activity, one that has a real a 21st-century twist to it. The technology behind vaping is relatively new. The consequences of doing it are mysterious and potentially very dangerous. And yet, vaping seems better than what people in the 20th century did to their bodies—namely smoking cigarettes. If you’re doing that…

CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images Voices against dual-class shares, which violate the principles of corporate democracy and the precept of “one share one vote,” have increased over time. An influential 50-member Investor Stewardship Group (ISG), overseeing $22 trillion in assets, demands a total elimination of dual-class stock. Council of Institutional Investors (CII), representing managers of $25…

Artificial intelligence mastered a lot of tasks in 2018. There are algorithms that win human debates, book dinners, eliminate checkout lines, tend gardens, spot plumbing leaks, and call for help when we trip and fall. But the machines aren’t completely taking over just yet. There’s at least one thing we’re sure even the savviest silicone…

As the late screenwriting legend William Goldman famously said; “nobody knows anything” so predictions – especially about technology – always run the risk of making people look silly in the not-so-distant-future. That said, I’m going to go out on a limb and say in the next few years we’re going to see more people becoming…

ImageMeng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei and a daughter of the company’s founder, was arrested in Canada on Saturday.CreditCreditAlexander Bibik/ReutersWASHINGTON — At dinner with China’s president, Xi Jinping, on Saturday night in Buenos Aires, President Trump celebrated their “special” relationship and all but predicted they would emerge with a truce in the trade…

Most connected devices are a black box. When you buy a smart toaster, you don’t know how much of your data it’s beaming up to cloud or whether its lax security has allowed it to become part of a bot network (which happened in 2016). How are you supposed to know which smart lightbulb you can…

Blockchain Blockchain’s immutable and decentralized ledger is the perfect framework for the wide range of companies looking to take asset management to the next level. Image credit: D-Keine | Getty Images November 15, 2018 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. “Asset” may have a clinical ring to it, but it…

Photo: Adam Clark Estes (Gizmodo)Since its introduction in 2012, Dolby Atmos has been a dazzling new audio technology that you could basically only experience in fancy movie theaters. But recently, high-end soundbars have started supporting the standard, which was cool if you wanted to spend north of $1,000 on a system. Vizio did what Vizio…

But their response to the Wisconsin power grab remains too weak. And some companies are still silent.Dec. 14, 2018ImagePeople protested Republican-backed bills stripping incoming Democrats of power outside the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison, Wis., last week.CreditCreditJohn Hart/Wisconsin State Journal, via Associated PressThis article is part of the Opinion Today newsletter. You can sign up…

Musician Imogen Heap might be best known as a solo artist, but don’t assume she’s a lone wolf. On the contrary, Heap has worked closely with many artists and on many different projects throughout her career. Most notably and recently, she was part of the Grammy-winning production team for Taylor Swift’s album 1989, and almost…

This is a choose-your-own-adventure review of the brand new choose-your-own-adventure Netflix special, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.  You can choose to remain entirely spoiler-free until you experience it for yourself. In which case: this is quite simply a brilliant, groundbreaking piece of interactive television. One that has cracked the code as to how you let the viewer…

Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. By Genevieve ScaranoMashable Deals2018-11-13 16:22:24 UTC Who doesn’t live binge-watching during downtime? It usually involves us enjoying flicks, wearing sweats, and eating delicious takeout. Especially after a long day, it’s great to watch movies, TV episodes, or exclusive…

Last month, Chinese national He Jiankui flouted a vigorous scientific debate when he told a room full of scientists that he had manipulated the embryos of Chinese twins, using Crispr, and made one resistant to their father’s HIV. He announced to the group that the twins of the experiment had already been born.The big reveal…

The Canadian technology brand is creating a new way to experience smart glasses, with high-touch retail locations in Brooklyn and Toronto that enable personalized fit and function The development and adoption of wearable technology has had an interesting trajectory. While wearables and fitness tracking technology took off, accessories like Google’s Glass and Snap’s Spectacles failed…

BONNINSTUDIO / ShutterstockBONNINSTUDIO / Shutterstock It’s always risky to make broad assertions about history, but one of the few things that seems to hold true is that technological advances drive the course of civilization. Bronze and iron were so crucial to the spread of ancient societies that they have entire epochs named after them. With…

By Daria Solovieva6 minute ReadThe biggest bank in Russia, which has been under U.S. sanctions since 2014, just launched a state-of-the-art coding school in Moscow that aims to train thousands of world-class software engineers in the arts of cybersecurity, gaming, and the latest AI technology for years to come.School 21, which operates under the umbrella…

Technology has changed the meaning of how we interpret security and privacy in this digital millennium. We’ve made tools that can prevent major vulnerabilities, with years of research, and debugging, to finally prevent disruptions in our workflow from occurring. What we forget is, the biggest enemy to security is still a human being or as…

Joe McDonald, The Associated Press Published Saturday, December 15, 2018 9:57PM EST BEIJING — While a Huawei executive faces possible U.S. charges over trade with Iran, the Chinese tech giant’s ambition to be a leader in next-generation telecoms is colliding with security worries abroad. Australia and New Zealand have barred Huawei Technologies Ltd. as a…

Millennials Millennials, the first generation expected to be less prosperous than their parents, may also be less healthy. Image credit: Westend61 | Getty Images November 9, 2018 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Believe it or not, millennials are getting older (and sadly, so are the rest of us). With…

Office Tech Digital transformation offers something for every company — although that something may be different in every case. Image credit: Sunwoo Jung | Getty Images Rashan Dixon Guest Writer Co-founder of Techincon and Senior Business Consultant for Microsoft December 11, 2018 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Every company…

When it comes to exercise and fitness, the gadgets that get the most attention tend to be smartwatches and fitness trackers, with a nod to how our smartphones can be of benefit too. As it turns out, those aren’t the only devices that can help us to get fit however, as there are a number of…

Under the guidance of Shalin Mantri, a former product lead at Uber for its advanced technologies group, Skip is gearing up to make its scooters smarter and improve its unit economics. “When I think about opportunities to figure out our unit economics,” Mantri, who joined Skip from Uber in November, told TechCrunch, “it’s no secret…

Facebook failed to prevent its platform being used to auction a 16-year-old girl off for marriage in South Sudan. Child early and forced marriage (CEFM) is the most commonly reported form of gender-based violence in South Sudan, according to a recent Plan International report on the myriad risks for adolescent girls living in the war-torn region. Now…

Scientus Pharma claims weed oils are wildly inconsistent. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris YoungThis article originally appeared on VICE Canada.A biopharmaceutical company hoping to disrupt the cannabis extraction market is claiming some Canadian licensed producers are selling cannabis oils that are tantamount to placebos. Cannabis oils have surged in popularity over the last couple years, but for medical…

Microsoft’s Bill Gates (L), Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg (R), and Apple’s Steve Jobs didn’t need a college diploma to run their companies.During the Industrial Revolution, many people feared that the emergence of new technologies — textile mills, factories, steam-powered manufacturing — would eliminate their jobs. Labors, artisans, and farm workers who relied on their physical toil…

Moralizing and giggling about the topic today won’t stop the technology from changing society tomorrow. sarah5/iStock/Getty Images Plus Why Queen Elizabeth Wore Such Wild Makeup—and How It May Have Led to Her Decline The Weirdest Part of This New Meat Allergy Is That We Know What’s Causing It Congressman Says a “WallCoin” Could Fund Trump’s…

Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. We compare Fire TV and Roku Premiere to help you decide which streaming device is right for you.By Genevieve ScaranoMashable Deals2018-11-13 15:13:06 UTC What’s the best way to unwind? A movie or TV marathon of course! And, with…

BUENOS AIRES — The trade talks that President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping launched this weekend have raised hopes for a peaceful resolution of the trans-Pacific tariff war — but the economic relationship between the U.S. and China has been permanently altered. Over dinner following the Group of 20 summit Saturday, Trump agreed to…

It’s too late to save the 2018 US midterms from digital deception campaigns – but it’s not too late for democracy. This year’s elections saw an unprecedented rise in political manipulation over social media. In October, the Department of Justice charged a Russian national with running a US-focused political disinformation campaign that had a budget…

The UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights has raised concerns about the UK’s rush to apply digital technologies and data tools to socially re-engineer the delivery of public services at scale, warning in a statement today that the impact of a digital welfare state on vulnerable people will be “immense”. He has…

By Louise Lee5 minute ReadScience and technology research can make drastic improvements to health, education, and well-being, but far too few innovations are reaching people who need them most.Despite many advances, “we haven’t seen many large-scale applications to problems of the poor,” says Susan Athey, a professor of economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business.Athey…

Desktop 3D printing is an incredible technology to be sure, but it’s not a cure-all. If you’re interested in making something in large numbers, or if production speed is a concern, 3D printing probably isn’t what you’re looking for. But on the flip side, if you want to make a few highly specialized or customized…

In December 2017, Google quietly released a new feature on its Arts & Culture app. It was a neat little tool where you could upload a picture of yourself, facial recognition would analyze your features, and a machine learning algorithm would scan through the history of (mostly Western) art to find a painted person who…

Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo Contributor Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo is a former Google and Twitter manager and current CEO of Céntrico Digital, a Latin American-based digital agency. More posts by this contributor Eduardo Gomez started with Bitcoin in 2012, though he didn’t quite understand what he was getting himself into nor how it would change his life. Back in…

DisabilityPortrayals of this technology as a “miracle” for deaf people overlook its potential downsides and challenges. By Sara NovicMs. Novic is a deaf writer and teacher who uses American Sign Language and English. Nov. 21, 2018ImageI.S.D.B. is spelled out in sign language underneath some of the conference schools at the Idaho School for the Deaf…

ImageCreditPete GamlenThe biggest roadblock to your productivity is the smartphone on your desk.Dec. 2, 2018Welcome to the Smarter Living newsletter! Every Monday, S.L. editor Tim Herrera emails readers with tips and advice for living a better, more fulfilling life. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. As I type this, my iPhone is…

With his spiky hair and Adidas sweatshirt, Shay Murray looks like a typical 11-year-old. He’s cute, he’s boisterous, he’s into everything. But he also has Pearson syndrome, an incredibly rare mitochondrial disease that affects multiple body organs. His eyesight, hearing and memory are deteriorating, his kidneys are operating at barely 60%. There is no cure.…

Brick and Mortar Take a cue from brands like Warby Parker and Everlane. Image credit: Michael Buckner | Getty Images Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The recent news of Sears shutting down, coupled with Amazon now running over 600 retail stores, has made one thing very clear — the retail industry is…

Buying gifts for men is notoriously tricky. Can you be sure that he is going to like it? And are you certain that he doesn’t already have something similar? It can sometimes feel like an impossible task.  It’s all well and good if he gives you clear direction, but that takes some of the fun…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Alex Wong / Getty Images Google CEO Sundar Pichai defended the search giant against criticism of political bias, concerns over its data collection policies and worries about efforts in China during a high-profile appearance on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.The leader of the world’s largest search…

We’re entering an unprecedented era of advanced technology and behemoth tech companies driving its development. Earlier this year, Apple became the first company to reach a one-trillion-dollar valuation, and Amazon followed suit, reaching a one-trillion-dollar market cap in September. Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Facebook, and Netflix are similarly dominant over the S&P 500, together providing…

Bryan Steffy/Getty Images for Variety HQ Trivia CEO and Vine cofounder Colin Kroll has died at age 34. Kroll helped create two of the most viral apps of the past decade after getting his start at Yahoo and the travel site JetSetter. Here’s a look at Kroll’s career. Colin Kroll, the cofounder of HQ Trivia…

Governments and private companies are deploying AI systems at a rapid pace, but the public lacks the tools to hold these systems accountable when they fail. That’s one of the major conclusions in a new report issued by AI Now, a research group home to employees from tech companies like Microsoft and Google and affiliated…

Ah, security purposes, our favorite road to hell paved with some kind of intentions. Is it like when Facebook took people’s phone numbers for security purposes and handed them to advertisers? Sorry, I’m just a little cynical right now. The report explained the purpose of corporate bosses chipping their workers like a beloved Pekinese is…

Our in-house Know-It-Alls answer questions about your interactions with technology.Q: What is a bot?A: It’s a sunny day outside, but you wouldn’t know it. You’ve been staring at the modern hellscape known as Twitter for hours now, refreshing feed after feed. Your eyes are glazed over but you keep going; you’re too deep into Politics…

GIF: Alexander Clegg/GIT/GizmodoThe ability to put our clothes on each day is something most of us take for granted, but as computer scientists from Georgia Institute of Technology recently found out, it’s a surprisingly complicated task—even for artificial intelligence. As any toddler will gladly tell you, it’s not easy to dress oneself. It requires patience,…

Good news for fans of getting stuff fast—all of us, then—because a new version of wifi is just around the corner. Wi-Fi 6 is going to be better than current wifi in every regard, and the body behind it just published a paper extolling its virtues, emphasizing that, yes, we will still need good old…

Fitness trackers and heart-rate monitors are all well and good, but if you want to track activity inside the body, the solutions aren’t nearly as convenient. Iota Biosciences wants to change that with millimeter-wide sensors that can live more or less permanently in your body and transmit wirelessly what they detect, and a $15 million…

The U.S. House of Representatives will see an influx of scientists as a result of the 2018 midterm elections.The 2016 election, specifically Donald Trump’s utter disregard for facts, galvanized scientists nationwide. A hundred thousand scientists marched on the capitol in 2017, and advocacy groups formed to promote science and scientists in politics. Last night saw…

The IoT technology is not only taking over the industry, but it’s taking over our households, too. The number of IoT devices is rapidly increasing everyday — all with the intent for us be able to control everything at the touch of a button. No problems this far in the IoT home device plan. Everything…

(BEIJING) — A Chinese university’s plan to conduct a blanket search of student and staff electronic devices has come under fire, illustrating the limits of the population’s tolerance for surveillance and raising the prospect that tactics used on Muslim minorities may be creeping into the rest of the country. The Guilin University of Electronic Technology…

Tiffany Olson Kleemann Contributor Tiffany Olson Kleemann is the chief executive officer of Distil Networks. She formerly served in executive roles at Symantec and FireEye and was deputy chief of staff for cybersecurity operations under President George W. Bush. The fact that Russian-linked bots penetrated social media to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election has…

Wall Street capped a turbulent week of trading Friday with the biggest weekly loss since March as traders fret over rising trade tensions between Washington and Beijing and signals of slower economic growth.The latest wave of selling erased more than 550 points from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, bringing its three-day loss to more than…

One of the most interesting features Google showed off at the New York launch for this year’s Pixel smartphones was one the phones didn’t actually ship with. Night Sight appeared to quite literally challenge the limits of low light imagery. Looking back, it is quite obvious why people were very sceptical of Google pulling it…

Eeyore is one of the many Disney characters to appear in the reference-heavy film. Disney “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” the sequel to Disney’s 2012 hit, “Wreck-It Ralph,” which hits theaters Wednesday, is worthy of the original according to critics. Critics are impressed with its clever examination of internet culture, saying that it “connects to our…

More of that weird quantum art that always comes with quantum computing press releases.Illustration: E. Edwards/JQI (NIST)Quantum computers that can crack our strongest encryption methods might be decades away—but a group of entrepreneurs and researchers think we better start talking ethics now. Perhaps one of the year’s biggest stories was our collective realization that our…

I’m sitting on the floor of Fast Company‘s conference room, watching Little Red Riding Hood face off with a leather-jacket-wearing Big Bad Wolf. The wolf convinces her to tell him where her grandma’s house is, and then dashes off into the forest. Instantly, Little Red is horrified.“What’s wrong?” I ask her.“I don’t know, but something…

Once upon a time, in the faraway land of Hong Kong, there was a robot named Sophia. It longed for nothing, felt nothing, and was incapable of even the mildest human emotion. But, its creator Geppetto – er, creators David Hanson and Ben Goertzel, I mean – wanted to bring it to life anyway. So…

The most important room in the house. Photograph: Tom Kelley Archive/Getty Images Chances are, you’re reading this in your kitchen. It’s not only regularly voted the most important room of the house, but it’s also the place we spend more money on than any other – filled, as it is, with the latest smart home…

Image copyright Getty Images A violent storm on the Sun could cripple communications on Earth and cause huge economic damage, scientists have warned. Why are solar storms such a threat? In 1972, dozens of sea mines off the coast of Vietnam mysteriously exploded.It was recently confirmed the cause was solar storms, which can significantly disrupt…

The subject of a recent Netflix original movie called Outlaw King, Robert the Bruce is one of Scotland’s great national heroes. Get to know King Bob a little better. 1. Robert the Bruce was a polyglot who loved telling stories. He likely spoke Scots, Gaelic, Latin, and Norman French, and was an avid reader who…

Openwater CEO Mary Lou Jepsen said her company’s imaging technology has numerous potential applications. Jin S. Lee At Business Insider’s IGNITION conference on Monday, Mary Lou Jepsen, a former executive at Facebook and Google, discussed the technology being developed by her new company. Openwater is working on a new kind of imaging technology that relies…

Ascom / MCTICRobots, A.I. algorithms, and drone deliveries are increasingly found in just about every industry and profession. Why not the medical world, too? To that end, 2018 saw an impressive convergence of cutting-edge technology and groundbreaking medical research. It is, of course, crucial that any new technology is properly investigated before it finds its…

Photo: GettyIf you think things are messed up right now, you’re not alone: For years, polls have shown that trust in U.S. political institutions is either at rock-bottom levels or damn near close to it. And while elections are supposed to be the way Americans can push through actual, sustainable change, a lagging voting infrastructure…

ImageThe body of Keith Caneiro was found Tuesday outside his home in Colts Neck, N.J. His wife, Jennifer, and their two children were found dead inside the burning home.CreditCreditAndrew Mills/NJ Advance Media[What you need to know to start your day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]Raised in Brooklyn, the brothers Keith and Paul Caneiro…

By Bärí a. Williams5 minute ReadThe road to hell is paved with good intentions. Often in a rush of excitement and eagerness to solve a problem, or to alleviate a particularly thorny issue, people will champion a solution without being aware of all of the possibilities and potential pitfalls, intentional or otherwise, or blatantly ignore…

By Gemma Almond4 minute ReadFrom concerns over blue light to digital strain and dryness, headlines today often worry how smartphones and computer screens might be affecting the health of our eyes. But while the technology may be new, this concern certainly isn’t. Since Victorian times people have been concerned about how new innovations might damage…

Mergers and Acquisitions The technology and talent acquired — especially in high tech — are the most valuable assets secured from an integration. Image credit: Rawpixel Ltd | Getty Images Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Merging teams, products and processes is one of the most challenging efforts a company can undertake. Yet, M&A…

ImageMichael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime lawyer, leaving court in Manhattan last month. Prosecutors have been examining whether other Trump Organization executives were involved in campaign finance violations.CreditCreditAndrew Kelly/ReutersWhen federal prosecutors recommended a substantial prison term for President Trump’s former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, they linked Mr. Trump to the crimes Mr. Cohen had committed…

As this particularly trying year mercifully draws to a close, we have only one thing to say to 2018: Thank you, next.  To celebrate the conclusion of the year, we’re rounding up the 10 best Mashable Shop deals on gadgets from 2018, all of which you can still snag for the next few days only.…

Solid state — A solid-state propulsion system works by ionizing the air. John Timmer – Nov 21, 2018 6:58 pm UTC The Johnson Indoor Track at MIT probably won’t go down in history in the same way as Kitty Hawk has, but it was the scene of a first in powered flight. A team of…

By Shana Lynch4 minute ReadToday’s technology is rushing into one of the last traditional industries: agriculture. A field largely still unaffected by the technological revolution, farming is ripe for change as need couples with opportunity.“We’ve seen a wave of technology impact our information industries,” says Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Haim Mendelson. “Now we see…

If you take a peek at the back pages of 1990s computer magazines, you’ll find plenty of ads for data recovery services, toner cartridges, and bulk shipments of computer disks. Look even closer, and you’ll discover a now-almost-forgotten world of early digital erotica and sexual chat services.Dialup bulletin boards with names like “Sexy Modem” and…

Chinese newspapers on sale in Beijing decrying the detention of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou.Photo: Andy Wong (AP)Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei (and daughter of its founder, Ren Zhengfei) detained by Canadian authorities for extradition to the U.S. this month on allegations she lied to financial institutions as part of…

GIF: Gizmodo (Pronto.ai)Anthony Levandowski—formerly of Google, where he reportedly contributed to at least one serious crash and did not alert the police while overseeing its self-driving car program, and of Uber, where he allegedly imported stolen secrets from Google and was fired after being sued over it—rides again.Levandowski claims to have taken the first ever…

Amazon Amazon now has over 100 physical stores. Image credit: Courtesy of Nicole Leinbach Reyhle November 16, 2018 8 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Amazon recently opened two of its three Amazon 4-star stores, making its collective brick-and-mortar experiences tally up at over 100 locations between Amazon Books, Amazon Pop-Up, Amazon…

Text messaging has been around since the dawn of cellular technology, and sparked its own unique language. But it’s time to put sending regular SMS messages out to pasture. If you have an iPhone, you’re already on your way. iPhones (as well as iPads and Macs) use iMessage to send messages between Apple devices. It’s…

“I THINK I got it,” says Alekos Simoni with a grin, returning an electronic fly zapper called “The Executioner” to a nearby metal shelf. With a deft flick of his wrist he has done away with a genetically modified mosquito that was making a bid for freedom. There are many levels of containment to ensure…

The use of AI to create high-resolution fake images and videos has raised concerns about the use of disinformation as a political tool. Visual: Base photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr VIEWPOINTS: Partner content, op-eds, and Undark editorials. Over the past few years, the application of artificial intelligence to create faked images, audio, and video has…

Few inventions affected our relationship with technology as much as push notifications have. Before modern-day notifications, most of us felt in charge of deciding when we want to use and interact with technology, but now, technology is largely making that decision for us. It’s easy to blame technology, but it’s important to note that it…

Can we get a pit crew, too? — Racing tests engineers as well as their designs. Jonathan M. Gitlin – Nov 23, 2018 2:42 pm UTC ChevroletUpdate: It’s Thanksgiving week in the US, and many Ars staffers are currently sleeping off all yesterday’s tryptophan (or Soylent, we guess). So with a new racing season soon…

ImagePassengers at the departures area of Gatwick Airport, where flights were canceled after drones were spotted over the airfield outside London on Wednesday and Thursday.CreditCreditTim Ireland/Associated PressTwo drones that went floating over a runway at Gatwick Airport outside London this week caused chaos, disrupting hundreds of flights there, and stranding tens of thousands of passengers…

If the expected Galaxy S10 has superfast 5G connectivity and an in-screen fingerprint reader, you can thank Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 855 processor. Qualcomm is the world’s largest supplier of chipsets for mobile phones, and its latest will drive major Android devices in 2019, likely including flagship handsets from Samsung, Google and LG.At Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Technology…